Sulaiman Addonia, the author of “Silence is my mother tongue”, had to flee Eritrea with his mother and siblings to a refugee camp in Sudan when he was a child. Sean Sheehan This is the plight of the central characters in his novel – Saba, her older brother […]
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The paradox of the higher power
An ancient teacher and rabbi taught both obedient love, and that his commands were not burdensome. Indeed, that his commands had exactly the reverse effect―they lightened the burdens of the heavy-laden! Nigel Pocock How can this be? For this rabbi demanded absolute obedience and unselfish love (agape) towards […]
Identity: a recreation of individual and collective being
Identity seen in a concrete and real way, for example if we speak of social and cultural identities, implies not only the similarities within oneself but also differences within a community, nation or state. Claudio Chipana Gutiérrez The purpose is not to give a final and finished definition […]
Refugees: rising xenophobia in the Western world
Two women escaped from Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka, two of the worst world countries regarding Human Rights and especially gender equality. A refugee from Sierra Leone flew from a war which has its roots in British colonisation. Another lived in Ghana, Nigeria and Ivory Coast, before going to the United Kingdom.
World press freedom day
“It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there’s always a bad reaction. So we see that controversy, and we believe that is a good thing to engage in.” Julian Assange. As the world celebrates World Press Freedom […]
















